In terms of basketball, the Crimson Tide are resilient. Let 'em play.) So Tom Izzo and Sparty became a sentimental favorite winning the East in New York but not THE favorite. On to the redo: Michigan State isn't the biggest surprise of the Sweet 16 but now that the Izzos are here again, why stop now? The Spartans have the outside shooting and brawn inside with Tom Hauser (if officials back off on their unusual intrusion into the bracket this year. It's got a better chance of that than any predictive analysis. My bracket is now doubling as a breakfast placemat soaking up the spilled milk from my cereal. Here's the look at how our experts see the Regional action unfolding, as well as a lookahead to next week's Final Four in Houston.įirst of all, thank you for the mulligan. As Sweet 16 action approaches, our panel of experts are resetting their brackets and predicting how they see the Big Dance playing out from here. With 16 teams just remaining, it's time for a second chance. While the NCAA Tournament is technically a single-elimination event, that doesn't have to apply to us. Early exits from the likes of Kansas, Purdue and Marquette tripped up a lot of people. Three of our nine featured experts have already seen their title picks eliminated from the field, and none of the other six still have all four of their projected Final Four teams hanging around. In fact, most brackets begin to show blemishes by the mid-afternoon on Thursday of the tournament's first week because, frankly, it just takes luck to string together more than a couple correct predictions about the outcomes of an unpredictable event.Įven our panel of nine college basketball writers and analysts are dealing with some busted brackets. We'll see how long the remaining perfect brackets can last on a busy Saturday slate of 16 games.The madness of the NCAA Tournament eventually comes for nearly everyone who fills out a bracket before the first round games. 7 Florida State delivered a whopping blow to perfect brackets, leaving just 8.11 percent remaining.īy the time Mississippi State landed the upset, just 1.37 percent of brackets remained alive. 10 West Virginia, with only 45.75 percent of brackets remaining in the Women's Bracket Challenge Game entries. The perfect bracket count dropped below 50 percent when No. CBS: Public leaderboard shows at least 50 brackets are still perfect out of what started with a pool of well more than 500,000 entries.
099 percent, with at least 50 still perfect ESPN: 2,036 perfect out of a starting number of 2,079,212.Women's Bracket Challenge Game: 0.08 percent.Check out what we know of the total bracket or percentage number from the major bracket games below. After starting the day with more than two million brackets in the major online games, less than 1 percent of all brackets are left through 16 games, looking at the at publicly available data. There was only one upset on the first day of the 2023 women's NCAA tournament as No. We'll see how long these last seven can hang in there on Sunday, starting with No. 5 Iowa State, we fell to a countable number. The numbers fell quickly from there, but seven have made it through the first round. We started Saturday with less than 1 percent still perfect after 16 games. Last year, there were just three perfect brackets after the first round. The watch for a perfect bracket will continue into the second round.Īfter 32 games, there are seven perfect women's brackets - and we started by tracking more than 2 million in the major online games of the Women's Bracket Challenge Game, ESPN, CBS and Yahoo. Here's how the brackets dropped from seven to zero on Sunday: There were seven perfect brackets at the start of Sunday, and it seemed like the last two were set to make it to Monday, but Ole Miss had other plans. It's the first time the Cardinal fail to reach the Sweet 16 since 2007. The Ole Miss win also means Stanford is the first No. We were tracking well more than 2 million brackets in the major online games (Women's Bracket Challenge Game, ESPN, CBS and Yahoo) this year. The run was longer than last season, as women's brackets busted on the 36th game. 76” on ESPN and “ Keith's Amazing Bracket” on Yahoo, ending the hopes for perfection on the 40th game of the tournament. 1 Stanford busted the last two perfect women's brackets, “ Justin R. Dreams of a perfect bracket will have to be on hold until 2024.
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